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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

Ben Kingsley

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my wife at the Academy Awards, we both let the moment just go.
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Awards Let Go Wife
Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence.
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Astonishing Hamlet Intelligence
I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
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Approach Job Thinking
All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
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Behaviour Character Roots
I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
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Cinema Silence Thinking
I’m convinced that had I not changed my name, I don’t think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.
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Curve Name Thinking
I’m so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I’m very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.
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Directors Energy Giving
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
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Character Men Trying
I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character, true to the irony, and allow the irony to happen.
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Character Fall Thinking
I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
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Children People Thinking
Sometimes it’s right to do the wrong things and right now is one of those times.
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Reality Sometimes Truth
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
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Country Song Stars Writing
Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don’t have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.
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Family Internet Love Skype Telephone You
You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.
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Forgiving Lesson Profound
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
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Alive Singers Thieves
I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting.
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Acting might Thinking

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

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